Simply a follow up to Jen's great post; there were getting to be so many pages in that one I thought it could use a refresh. Happy to carry on the tradition!
Posted 6 months ago
Election (1999) 7/10 - A good light hearted comedy after a long time. Well it wasn't all positive, but was fun and good watch. I kinda relate to Mr. M. I felt he is a lot like me. The movie was pretty good, except the pre-climax which seemed rushed.
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I have always wanted to see that film but still haven't been able to. I have always liked his directors work and I have heard is one of his best films.
Dibyayan Chakravorty, Champion
Gods and Monster (1998) - 7/10
The movie seemed slow for most part though it is just about 100 min. Sir Ian Mckellen is just melted in the character, and the scenes featuring the monster were just great.
With that I completed IMDb top 250 for year 2000. Year 1999 coming up.
The movie seemed slow for most part though it is just about 100 min. Sir Ian Mckellen is just melted in the character, and the scenes featuring the monster were just great.
With that I completed IMDb top 250 for year 2000. Year 1999 coming up.
I watched this the other day, Brijesh and this was also a 7 for me. Sir IM was brilliant. He might have won the Oscar but he was up against it in 99. The film would have scored higher for me ... I just wasn't convinced about the ending.
Capricorn One (1977), 8/10. Well made, tense, and very interesting. Best "astronaut" film I've seen.
Sup Narni?
Just highlighting titles in my 2013 Leonard Maltin Movie Guide that I've seen! :D
Please tell me it's the Kindle Edition :D
Nope. Paperback. :) My hands are inky. :D Honestly, I never read Kindle or e-book.
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Hijacked: Flight 285 (TV Movie 1996), the Breakfast Club Reunion you've been waiting for. Anthony Michael Hall, a fugitive turned terrorist? Ally Sheedy, a gymnastics teacher whose side hustle is FBI Agent?
1/10 for the movie. 9/10 for the Rifftrax commentary.
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I've gotta see this one!
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Just when I thought the DCEU could not possibly get any worse.
Unwatchable.
1/10
Just when I thought the DCEU could not possibly get any worse.
Unwatchable.
1/10
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Is this why you removed your avatar of Harley Quinn??
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
Abi, I liked it, to be honest. Keep in mind: in 1990's or 1980's this would've been one of the best and comic-accurate comic book adaptations. Moreover most of the problems I find with the script area are there thanks to Marvel (including a very common spoiler syndrome which is often in place for important comic book villains).
Black Mask and Mr. Zsasz totally made this movie for me, but all of the supporting cast did a great job. Movie is a bit weak and somewhat style-over-substance, but is rather enjoyable.
Also, holy crap was this explosion in the end brutal. It might just be my personal phobia of some kind, but I shuddered and that is a reaction hard to achieve with me.
Black Mask and Mr. Zsasz totally made this movie for me, but all of the supporting cast did a great job. Movie is a bit weak and somewhat style-over-substance, but is rather enjoyable.
Also, holy crap was this explosion in the end brutal. It might just be my personal phobia of some kind, but I shuddered and that is a reaction hard to achieve with me.
Nikolay,
I didn't make it to the end, but I'll take your word for it, and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Cinephile,
Yes.
I didn't make it to the end, but I'll take your word for it, and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Cinephile,
Yes.
Batman (1989)
6/10, pretty overrated
6/10, pretty overrated
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
goddangwatir, I'm biased, cause this movie is like a part of my personal philosophy now. It might nt seem much by modern standards, but movie was groundbreaking in 1989. It's interesting how same material provided another similar groundbreaking milestone in 2019...
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The Invisible Man (2020) 8/10
Just perfect horror, thriller, mystery with sci-fi twist movie
Just perfect horror, thriller, mystery with sci-fi twist movie
She's Have Gotta It (1986) 6/10
The first feature film by Spike Lee, you could already see the characteristics of his cinema but he had a long way to go to mature his way of writing.
The first feature film by Spike Lee, you could already see the characteristics of his cinema but he had a long way to go to mature his way of writing.
Really? Nora Darling is one of the most original and fascinating female characters ever... we might not agree with her lifestyle but she is a feminist model before feminism was a cinematic trend and consisted of showing women wielding weapons or kicking ass. Nora kicks ass in her own unique and assumed way. Gave the film a 9 :)
https://m.imdb.com/review/rw4683628/
https://m.imdb.com/review/rw4683628/
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I have nothing against Nora Darling, in fact it is the male characters who fail, Mars and Nora is a practically impossible couple in real life, they do not match at all, I can not ignore the scene of Jamie raping Nora, she is saying he's hurting her and that's rape no matter what they say.
Ed Jones(XLIX)
Oswald
How are you doing, Ed?
Ed Jones(XLIX)
Went out and graded my 3/4 mile dirt road for a couple of hours. We had a downpour and the road was rough. I ride MC, so gotta keep the road smooth so I don't dump the bike in soft sand! Going out for a ride tomorrow.
TFA.
:):)
Ed Jones(XLIX)
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Oswald
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
That said, introverts and extraverts, temperament types etc... They're not working per se. There are always people who does not fit in any single small boxes psychology puts us into, unfortunately.
P.S. Sorry, I really don't know what prompted me to write that.
Ed Jones(XLIX)
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), a moderator for IMDb, gave this reason for the change:
Duplicate.
But I'm so much better in stereo!
Two Heads are better than one!
It was double vision!
Abi.........Thanks for cheering me up!
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
Ed Jones(XLIX)
I've been miserable for months.
Problem is I wanna go out and live!
But this overreaction and shutdown of society is absurd.
The infected number is way way off. It is under reported.
Actual death rate is no higher for the elderly than having a regular cold or the flu.
You watch. These initial numbers are so far out of whack, it's not funny.
I'm a high risk individual. 65 and I have lung issues. But I was barely affected by it at all. We can take precautions.This kills people my age. So senior citizens should stay at home and avoid social inter actions. But not the whole world. All ages. And it should be up to the individual not the government. Yes, by all means, take precautions. But forced hibernation is bad. The "Cure" may be worse than the disease. The "Glitch" right now is the silliness of this quarantine on those that need not be sitting at home because of a knee jerk reaction based off of faulty or incomplete data.
My turn. I really do know what prompted me to write that.
15yearsIMDber aka ElMo
I live in France where I feel that this whole confinement thing could have been easily avoided had the authorities taken the proper measures in time, one of the most surrealistic things was the President advising people to stay home but allowing them to go voting for the city council elections.
I stopped being a conspiracy freak ever since I reached the age of 30 (maybe 35) but I don't feel 100% confident on the lockdown efficiency, economy will stop, it's a major disaster for agriculture, who can tell if the basic supplies of food will be guaranteed for the next months etc.
Not saying we should underestimate the problem, but there's so much at stakes I wonder if it's worth turning a whole country into a ghost town...
But then I look at what's going on in Italy and Spain...
... anyway, I'm at home...and it's been 8 long days...
albstein
I don't necessarily believe in the goodwill of politicians but what they're doing is against their own interests. No one wants to be the guy who locked up the whole population, banned any amusement and destroyed the economy. The fact that they're doing it anyway hindicates the urgency of the situation. Although we should remain careful with regards to data policy, etc.
Oswald
They seem to make you the nicest guy ever though, however they make me an asshole. Interesting.
Take care buddy.
MST3K (and Narnia) is Awesome
Get well soon... I was sick about a month ago (not the virus, but a really bad flu), and I'm still trying to get back on my feet.
Ed Jones(XLIX)
Then get suspended....AGAIN...Together!! A dream date!
And Narni, sorry..... no group meetings. I'll stick to older women if you do not mind!!! LOL
Oswald
You know the reason this particular sock puppet gets the least amount of crap from admin and users is because of reverse sexism, and I'm actually a (straight) guy, right?
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15yearsIMDber aka ElMo
Al,
I agree that confinement is a good preventive measure but for as long as there's no remedy to that disease.
What irritates me the most is that there seems to be a medicine that comes the closest to efficiency for the fight against Coronavirus, without dropping the name you know which one I'm referring to.This medicine has been tested and endorsed by a world expert in Pneumonia, who happens to be French, but nothing has been done about it so far, no media treated the subject without putting interrogation marks, and many 'experts' came to question the methodology. Fair enough, maybe we should be careful...
... but during that week, I learned that my homeland Morocco has declared the medicine efficient and started stocking huge quantities for the population, same with Algeria, I also read that China, USA, South Korea approved the use of the medicine... but still nothing in France and other European countries... except for grave, solemn and grandiloquent speeches. That's what angers me the most, that "all quiet on the Western front" while countries with either controversial leaders or that aren't regarded as models of democracies do their best to find a solution and don't treat "confinement" as the only measure.
I know there are protocols and processes to be respected but according to Western leaders, it's a war and in war as in war, you've got to take chances and trust experts from all over the world. So, there's something fishy in the media treatment of that medicine, while many doctors on the Internet say it works, on TV, they interview that "guy" who'll say "let's wait".
If I ever get this thing, I won't wait.
albstein
European countries do in fact research medicines (at least ours in Germany do) but it takes a while to properly test these. Some medicines that initially raised hopes were found to have even worse side effects than they could potentially help. Of course people like Trump would like to have a "wonder pill" because solutions are always big and simple in his mind. It doesn't seem to work that way, unfortunately.
Confinement isn't the only solution but the only thing we can actively use on the population right now. Of course, the question is how long you can stay the course. I can't imagine us being confined for several months, and businesses crashing one after the other. There'll probably be a return to semi-normalcy soon, minus big events like the Olympics.
Ed Jones(XLIX)
I used ibuprofen to keep inflammation down in the lungs and bronchial tubes and primatine mist to help with constriction. Rather that look for a miracle cure, address the immediate issue. Constriction and inflammation. The human body can pretty much take care of itself with a minor nudge from readily available already existing medications. This is being treated rather poorly by all governments and inflamed by an over-reactive media and medical community.
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
In my case it probably just equates me into a saner person, since I also happen to have a rare neurological condition which messes up my muscles and hormones and quite a few physical traumas. One of the latter I suffered when I was still a toddler and to a point of physical, clinical death of several minutes. I'm literally lucky to be alive, but I also always wonder whether experiences like that made me a much better person than I ever would've been without them. As a side note: I've read a lot about my condition and while most of it is there, people with it often have their mind affected by it: they're bad learners and barely finish the school. I'm effectively PhD.
I sometimes muse myself with the thought that if concepts of multiverse are right there got to be a version of me somewhere, who had perfect health all of his life. For some reason I think that this person just ended up being something awful, like a serial killer, especially cynical thief, a cult leader, a politician, maybe all of that at once. I don't know whether it's just me having good/bad imagination, or me finding traces in my psyche of what I could've been should the stars (or whatever) aligned the other way. That interest often influences my theoretical interest in time travel, but more in vein of "how to prevent it from ever happening", rather than "how to change the past/present/future".
Sci-fi territory aside... I'm just glad to be alive, sometimes. You should be, too!
15yearsIMDber aka ElMo
Al,
Basically, Dr. Raoult (who's a supreme authority, a Titan in microbiology and infectious disease) came up with a protocol that either cured or decreased considerably the "viral load" of infected persons, and in the process the contamination factor: it consists on a dose of that chloroquine medicine and a specific antibiotic, both could be made available in the market... in fact, they've been used for decades.
Many countries decided to follow that protocol and according to many French doctors, so far, it works. They've been using them for their patients and it worked especially in the early stages of the infection. That's all. But in France, we still can't get these medics from our doctor's prescription (only in a hospital) and the Minister decided to use it for patients in the late stages of the disease (which according to the experts is useless). Meanwhile, they're analyzing the efficiency of the molecule and we're told to wait for the results that will come up in three weeks or one month.
That's where we are...